Birgitta Farmer

Background

Farmer was born in Lyons, New New York

Education

Académie Julian, Royal College of

She attended Lyons Public School, graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rochester, New York, and graduated from College of Fine s at Syracuse University.

Career

Among other places, she roomed at the American Girl"s Club in Paris. They had four children. She exhibited with the American Society of Miniature Painters, the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Associated ists of Syracuse.

She died in 1939 in Syracuse, New York of cancer.

Farmer"s work including her 1924 self-portrait was exhibited at the 24th Annual Exhibition of American Society of Miniature Painters and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters"s 38th Annual Exhibition. Moran is included in the National Portrait Gallery (United States) Catalog of American Portraits.

Her art was often signed "B K Moran", "Moran", or "B M Farmer".

Achievements

• At commencement, she won the 1906 Hiram Gee Award in Painting She used the award to study at Académie Julian and Académie de la Grande Chaumière Paris during 1906-1907.